High quality thumbnails

Hi ngrhd,

If you remove wp_photos=”true” it will reference Facebook photo rather than photo saved to WordPress.

-Mike

Hi Mike!

I tried doing that and cleared the cache but images are still picked from WP itself. Anything else that I’ve missed?

Thanks!

Hmmmmm, that is strange. I just did a test on my site and removing wp_photos=”true” used the photos from Facebook rather than WordPress. You can try unchecking checkbox and resyncing the album and if that does not work, try deleting the album and reimport it. Be sure to uncheck “Import images to WordPress media library?” so photos are not sideloaded into WordPress at all.

Alright, thumbnails are now fetched from FB’s Akamai CDN, however I find them too hazy, however upon clicking them to open full size, the images are really sharp but not on thumbnails? Is that a Facebook limitation?

Yes, Facebook supplies a list of image sizes via their Graph API. My plugin uses the photo that best represents the size being used. By default the height and width of the thumbnail is 130px by 130px, so a function is used to determine which image is closest to that size and uses it. This is done for performance reasons. If you know CSS, you can play around with this and get a bigger, higher quality image that you can shrink down. To do this, use the height and widget attribute in the shortcode:

[fb_album width=900 height=900 … ]

Then you can use background-size and width/height in your CSS to get the thumbnail to the size you like.

I’ll look into this issue more in the newest version I’m working on now and put in a shortcode option to use lower quality thumbnails for better performance and higher quality thumbnails for better look.